Avoid Fake Work

If I could guarantee that you could be more productive, what would it mean to you or allow you to accomplish?

You could get more done…maybe in less time?

I’d like to suggest that we need to redefine our expectations for productivity.   Rather than focus on working faster and checking off more items from our “next action” list, it is healthier to focus on spending more time on what matters to us so that we can achieve the greatest impact on what is really important t to us, whether that is in our personal life or work life.

Otherwise, we simply stay busy with what authors Brent Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson call “Fake Work.”

“Much of the work that people do doesn’t achieve results. . . . [A]cross all the organizations we have studied, about half the work that people do fails to advance the organizations’ strategies.”

So seek to have a positive impact on what we do. A sound productivity system gives us the tools to spend time on the things that matter most. Quality, not quantity.